Ever Changing Moon Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. large dark gray areas that are smooth on the surface of the Moon
  2. 6. a regular, repeating path that one object takes around another object or center of gravity
  3. 7. the four-week period during which the Moon orbits Earth one time and goes through all of its phases
  4. 9. an invisible line going North/South through the Earth
  5. 10. to light up
  6. 12. information that is not represented by numbers but by characteristics or descriptions
  7. 13. when the face of the Moon looks smaller each day
  8. 14. one full orbit around an object
  9. 15. any phase of the moon that has more than half of its face illuminated
Down
  1. 1. information that can be counted or measured or given a numerical value
  2. 3. one spin of a planet on its axis
  3. 4. an eclipse in which the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth's shadow
  4. 5. caused by the way the sunlight hits the Earth according to the Earth's axis
  5. 8. a dark area produced by an object coming between light and a surface
  6. 11. when the face of the Moon looks larger each day